June 13, 2016— Professor Emeritus Gary Blasi spoke to Southern California Public Radio for an article describing Venice Stakeholders Association’s resistance to a proposed storage facility for homeless people to store their belongings. City officials have been pushing for the storage facility -- as many as 2,500 of Los Angeles’s homeless live near the Venice boardwalk.

“They [residents] want the gloss of an edgier neighborhood without the realities,” said Professor Blasi.